I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWhen God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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